I normally wouldn’t send you off for something like this without watching a bit of it myself, but tonight I’ve got Spoiler Warning, a sick kid, a bunch of obligations, and a powerful need to sleep. So please forgive me the hypocrisy of linking to something I haven’t perused myself.

I would have been more involved (or at least stopped by for a chat) if I had more time. I do hate to miss out on anything Minecraft-related, and I’m curious where this conversation is going. Good luck to Bacongamer and the rest of the team, and I apologize again for this drive-by endorsement.

“I’ll cut to the chase. I woke up Sunday morning so sick that I’ve been sitting here for eight minutes and after a dozen edits, I’ve barely managed to write a sentence conveying that information coherently. I spent five of those minutes trying to make the information funny, gave up, and spent another three trying to get the information there. I don’t even have some kind of mutant voodoo South American monkey pox; as best as I can tell, I’ve got a case of a common cold, a headache, not enough sleep, and an immune system as robust as an analogy I cannot come up with.” – Rutscarn’s blog

Good luck with the recovery, Shamus. My family and kid managed to deliver unto me all those backup band viruses traveling with the flu this year. I was basically infected with some form of creeping crud from Thanksgiving through Christmas, with the real fun beginning around New Year’s. I’m just about over that one, but I hope you don’t make the same mistake I did: I used a “get the gunk out of your lungs” medication to help, well, empty out my lungs, but I didn’t read the packaging too carefully until AFTER I got better and discovered it was the “don’t take and operate heavy machinery” version of the medication.

All the while I took it, no amount of coffee could keep me focused, and I’d occasionally wonder if the virus was giving me dain bramage. ‘Twas most un-fun.